Favourite titles

Whether it is "Redefining literary techniques and devices", "Justifying Papua New Guinea Literature", or "Translating the Bible into Anuki", these offer valuable reading for the paperless student of literature, and indeed the best sort of literary entertainment you can get out of Papua New Guinea. Check them out either on Soaba's Storyboard or The Anuki Country Press.

Friday, 15 January 2016

I mean people from the West and more particularly the Caucasian stock wanting to visit and get the feel of the wildest most primitive and uncivilized places on earth like Papua New Guinea.

What are they really looking for?

Somewhere along the line something goes wrong. There are reports of lost souls unable to find their way back to civilization and other much more horrible things that happen to them and which are not worth mentioning here but which do indeed go viral on the internet...

Now according to Dr. Freud, these would be those young people daring to know what really goes on in their bourgeois and upper middle class "selfie" lives...

We'd rather this same miserable and unhappy lot visited Tototo and surrounds... certainly the most fearsome and most unimaginably the worst of dracula kind of places on the planet... Then they would see what "wild and most primitive" means...

Averemi, simiri mau... and so sorry for those who stray to the other parts of the country where there is nothing but disappointment for the West over and over...

A country without any sense of government is no country at all. (Who said that? The old villager... but someone else did before that).

Like Thoreau: A government is best which governs not at all.

Which should not serve as an excuse to all the horrible things that happen to tourists visiting our country!

THE MORAL OF THIS POST IS QUITE SIMPLE. RATHER THAN PLAY HERO IN THE WILD JUNGLES OF NEW GUINEA JUST TO GET RAPED MERCILESSLY FOR HOLLYWOOD AND OTHER SENSATIONAL MEDIA RIDICULOUSNESSES PLEASE MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL BY COMING TO OUR MOST PRIMITIVE AND SAVAGE PARTS OF THE COUNTRY TO BUILD NEW CLASSROOMS AND HELP OUR CHILREN GET A BETTER EDUCATION.

Saturday, 9 January 2016

Today, Saturday, 9th January 2016, the rest of the family returns to hear our report on how we have been keeping the family fort secure while everyone was away. Athena here in charge (or as my grandfather has christened me, Princess Athena Karogo Bogerara Gaesasara Soaba - never mind, it's a long name, don't worry about it).

My cousins Karina and Ian were extremely vigilant in keeping watch over the entirety of the fort.

My aunt Bibi ensured we had something in our stomachs before nightfall.

My mother took care of nutrition and what we were eating during the festive season.

Aunty Mimi took care of our finances in case we all starved.

My uncles KD and Tite tried their best in fitting every gadget in place so we could watch some colourful things flying in the air. And when we felt bored we settled down to Tinker Bell's adventures, only that uncle Tite would add flavour to all that jazz with more jazz pieces that tingle the senses (my grandfather's favorite tunes, that is... duhuh)....

By nightfall and at supper time my great grandmother read us some lovely stories from a worn out, dusty looking book we call the family Bible...

That daywhen you rememberedand ran all the way backto tell me, we both heardthe crack, and your eyes shoneas you slid down the wall to sitstill at the doorway; and the wordnever came out of your mouth. The nightbefore, Tonua, my love, the dance was good:how our knees bent and your hair flew

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Welcome to the Anuki Country Press. The aim of this self-publishing venture, which also appears as a blog here, is to answer Papua New Guinea's literacy and literary needs. It also gives you the latest in PNG literature and the arts through its blog partner Soaba's Storyboard.
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What to look for

This is one title from The Anuki Country Press you could be looking for.

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The novel Wanpis has long been regarded as the classic in PNG Literature for over four decades now. In fact, Malum Nalu is never wrong in raving on about the sort of influence the book has in various colleges and univerities throughout the world.

Maiba

Maiba is the common form of Anuki communication which expresses truths only through parables and riddles. Maiba, as a novel, was first published by Three Continents Press in Washington, D.C., in 1985/86 and currently appears under the imprint of Lynne Rienner Publishers in Boulder, Colorado Springs. Like the novel Wanpis, Maiba also has an equal number of following at colleges and universities here and abroad. It has also been translated into Italian in 2008.